Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD (PCIe), 128 GB, 2280 form factor

I bought two incorrect items already (External M.2 SSD NVMe Enclosure × 1)

What do I need to buy for this specific item?

⟐ Commented January 27, 2026 at 13:24 MST

⟐ Commented December 30, 2025 at 15:12 MST

I am in a weird spot with upgrades for a few people - someone has a Dell with the i5-9400/12GB/256GB+1TB but I have someone with a Ryzen 5 2400G HP desktop which cannot run Windows 11 -- owner decided against the bypass, but that means I only have 11 months to figure this out :-(. I've "shopped around" with family who owns older PCs who have had them for a few years. One has come up as I suspect they will take an upgrade being they've had it for years (i5-9400). Still a good CPU, but it's older.

The issue is this person crams the SSD and this machine is 256GB+1TB so the SSD took a beating even with 12GB of RAM. It's taken a bit more of a beating then some of the drives I have seen which hover at 2-3%. Is the TBW of this drive known so I can judge how critical an SSD swap will be?

⟐ Answer accepted December 30, 2025 at 11:53 MST

⟐ Answer accepted December 22, 2025 at 22:27 MST

The title asks the question. The reason for it is that I understand aluminum enclosures are better for dealing with heat, unless of course it's got a fan, which this one doesn't have.

⟐ Commented December 07, 2025 at 2:30 MST

I popped it open to have a look, and the only think I saw that looked out of order were these semi transparent things. They look cracked.

What are these, and could they have caused the problem?

They look like fuses to me, and they are non conductive. There's absolutely no conductivity through them. Just OL with a multimeter.

⟐ Answered November 14, 2025 at 5:16 MST

Apple Blade SSD 5GA 34+22 Pins NVMe

⟐ Answer edited March 16, 2026 at 7:33 MST

Now it shows up in disk management as unallocated, and my GetData Recover My Files software could see and scan it. Unfortunately, it could not find any files on it (I have always used this software for data recovery and have had a fairly high success rate with it).

Does anyone have any suggestions for software to recover data from a functioning (I guess) SSD? I appreciate any help. Thanks!

⟐ Answered June 24, 2025 at 5:23 MST

⟐ Answered June 24, 2025 at 4:36 MST

I’ve got a tool set with 57 different bits, but none works on this screw, and I’m not even sure which bit I would need because the screw isn’t identified.

⟐ Commented June 16, 2025 at 19:28 MST

⟐ Commented April 17, 2025 at 1:57 MST

⟐ Answered February 19, 2025 at 11:02 MST

⟐ Commented December 30, 2024 at 11:18 MST

No matter what I tried, never got past that again, so I had to pull out my old SSD and swap it in, boots right up, memory is all working, original apple SSD is all good. I order OWC's SSD enclosure, get it today, plug the SSD in, nothing shows up. 30 min plugged in, jostling it around, trying things, nothing changes. Doesn't show up in Disk Utility at all, lights are all powered on the SSD and the enclosure, its plugged directly into the back of the mac. I notice it's getting really hot, so I unplug it.

Literally nothing has changed, I can't find any damage or signs of failed components visually, what am I missing? Is it worth trying to have someone recover? I had all my data, and even bootcamp installed on this SSD. I look up this SSD online and turns out this seems to be a common issue, with no solution so far I can find.

⟐ Commented April 16, 2024 at 12:38 MST

Before installing, I wanted to do some testing using Black Magic Disk Speed Test, here are the results:

iMac Fusion Drive (HDD+SSD):

Write: 150-200mb/s

Read: 250-400mb/s

Samsung 860 EVO:

Write: 30-50mb/s

Read: 220mb/s

So my question is, what’s going on here? It makes no sense at all that the fusion drive tests results are beating the pants off the EVO, which is giving worse results than just about any HD I can recall testing. I did test the speed via Thunderbolt 1 using Target Disk Mode, but also got similar results directly on the MBP that houses the EVO. The SSD is pretty full, would that have a drastic affect on the speed? Is this thing just bad?

Thanks in advance for any help!

⟐ Commented February 29, 2024 at 16:37 MST

will this item fit a samsung mz-jpu512t/0a6 ssd (from a 2013ish imac)?

External M.2 SSD NVMe Enclosure

I didn't see any way to ask this question on the product page.

I extricated the drive and ordered what I believed was the correct enclosure, but I was mistaken. Looking through enclosures here and on amazon, I cannot find any that will fit this ssd.

Any help--any!--would be appreciated.

Thanks!

⟐ Answered October 16, 2023 at 13:35 MST

Please find attached the pic of the SSD

⟐ Answered September 05, 2023 at 11:02 MST

I have issue with OWC SSDAD2MB05 480GB. I am trying to access this drive from my MP3.1 over PCIe adapter (other drives working perfectly).

But if I connect this drive after start it's taking longer before I can see icon on the desktop and I can't get access over DIsk Utility - just stuck on "loading disks" screen. Over terminal I can see that there is GUID_partition_scheme disk1, EFI disk1s1, Apple_APFS disk1s2 but I can't delete partitions or rename etc...

I also tried USB installer but it's again stuck on Disk identification ...

Do you think that this is an issue with disk ? It was taken from broken MBP - motherboard fails - or it's have something to do with APFS partition ?

Thank you for any advice/ideas

⟐ Answer accepted April 14, 2023 at 5:35 MST

⟐ Answer accepted March 18, 2023 at 8:17 MST